The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-24
State Stems.

Washington Progress: Farmers
Resolve to raise all your own supplies
for 1888.
Chatham Record: Mr.. r. E. Harris,
of New Hope township, killed nine
teen wild ducks in Haw river at four
shots, a few days ago.
Lenoir Topic: Major w w. Elem
ing,'a prominent Charlotte lawyer, will
move to Washington and establish
himself in his profession.
Davidson Dispatch: An unknown
white man, supposed to be a tramp,
was killed by a train on the 4adkin
River bridge last Saturday.
Davie Times: One of the most "pro-
gressive farmers" of Jericho, bought
him a hound dog, this fall and has
caught thirty five 'possums. He is
laying in his next years meat.
Durham Recorder: Verify, the Dur
ham Cotton Factory boometh early in
the morning until late at night. Stuff
cient goods have been sold to keep
every piece of machinery, and hun
dreds of hands employed until March,
1888.
Goldsboro Argus: Maj. Grant tells
us that he sent some of the clay taken
from his brick yards near this town to
Salem Ohio, to a large manufacturer
of se%wer-pipes, who had it examined
by his expert, and that it is pronoun-
ced by him to be the most perfect clay
for making sewer pipes that he had
seen.
Franklin Macon Coz Press: We are
informed that Mr.. VIM. Mckee this
year made one hundred and eleven
bushels Of Irish potatoes off of a half
acre of ground, and two hundred and
fifteen gallons of syrup off of an acre
and a half of land. And yet some
people say that farming don't pay in
this country.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. R. J. Petree,
an industrious farmer of stokes county,
we learn, with one hand besides him
self and two mules, raised this year
200 bushels of oats, enough wheat to
do him three years, more than enough
corn to do him a year, and over 5000
pounds of tobacco, which he has al
ready sold at an average of S22,5O
per hundred pounds.
Sylvia Herald: Notwithstanding the
very short supply of the apple crop
there has been shipped from this point,
by freight, since the lst of October,
A, l65 pounds; of chestnuts, "a, 663
pounds; cabbage, 33,2SO pounds; Irish
potatoes, 1894 pounds; onions, 2,lS4
pounds; and one mixed carload, for
Augusta, Ga, of 27, 900 pounds aggre
eating IA, 900 pounds.
Evenimg News:: The patch of sugar
ane which we spoke of as very fine
some time ago. belonging to Mr.. J, B.
Hair, has been made up into syrup.
About 8 or 9 acres were planted and
the yield was nearly. two thousand gal
Ions, besides a considerable lot that
was fed to the hogs and that was al
lowed to dry up, without being gath
cred. This makes the average over
225 gallons per acre.
Sanford Espress: Vance held the
audience under lowering clouds, in a
mist of rain and chilly wind, for nearly
an hour. Everybody said ii, was the
most manly, honest, thoughtful agri-
cultural speech that he had ever heard.
Vance talked out in palmer language
to the farmers than politicians usually
do. If there is an honest politician
this side of heaven, Senator Vanceis
one. He is the prince of Carolinians.
Winston Daily: An intoxicated
drummer applied to the ticket agent
at High Point Saturday night for a
ticket to Greensboro and the agent re-
fused to sell him one, according to the
rules of the railroad company. The
drummer boarded the train without
q ticket and refused to pay his fare,
when the conductor demonstrated with
him, but without effect. He then